Sharon Phelan is a Dublin-based artist whose work spans performance, installation, writing and composition. With specific attention to sound, voice, resonance and poetics of place, her practise engages with ways of listening, field recording, and language, often through site-responsive and collaborative projects. She is particularly interested in ways of knowing sound and listening from a gendered and marginal perspective, guided by filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s concept of ‘listening to intervals’.
Recent exhibitions and performances include: Brown Mountain Diamond; Osaka World Expo; Fête de la Musique; Metronome; The School of Wild Listening; The Dock; EVA International; Reception; Audiograft; Limerick City Gallery, VISUAL Carlow; and Alternating Current. Her writing has been presented in publications with Solstice Arts Centre; The Sonic Arts Research Unit; NCAD Creative Futures Academy; and Theatrum Mundi. She is a 2026 recipient of the Sonic Arts Residency at University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio.

Phelan holds a PhD in Creative Arts from Trinity College. She has received support for her practise from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council. Her work has featured and been reviewed in The Wire; Visual Artists Ireland; The Journal of Music; The Guardian; The Irish Times; Circa Art Magazine; and RTÉ Culture.

Hasan Hujairi (b. 1982) is a Bahraini artist, composer, and writer. His work often explores the notion of the outsider, confronting (historiographic) superstructures, and the nature of constructing narratives within time. He holds a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in music composition from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), where he researched reorienting the narrative associated with the maverick composer tradition to be more inclusive of composers working outside the Western classical music tradition. He also holds a Masters of Economics from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan) in economic history and regional economics, and wrote his thesis on the significance of conceiving the Gulf region in both its littorals within a Braudelian historiographic framework. As of January 2023, he joined the Sharjah Art Foundation as manager of the music department. See more details here

Tarek Atoui, Sunflowers
21 Feb – 19 Jul 2026, Gallery 3, IMMA
Tarek Atoui is a Lebanese sound artist and composer based in Paris known for his innovative approach to sound, performance, and instrument-making. His work explores the physicality of sound and the act of listening, creating immersive experiences that challenge traditional boundaries between artist, audience, and instrument. More details here

Tarek Atoui (Beirut, Lebanon, 1980; lives and works in Paris) is an artist and electro acoustic composer who explores the medium of sound and the way it gives shape to perceptions through dynamic installations, experimental acoustic environments, and collaborative performances. The artist works with composers and craftsmen from different countries to invent complex instruments with strong sculptural halos. By bringing together a wide range of materials and knowledge he tests the acoustic properties and the unique ways in which elements like bronze, water, glass and stone transmit and reflect sound. Using custom-built electronic instruments and computers, Atoui references current social and political realities, revealing music and new technologies as powerful aspects of expression and identity. Education and social connection are integral aspects of theartist’s practice that often collaborate with different local communities and invites the visitor to interact and experience his multi-sensory environments.

He has exhibited at numerous major institutions such as Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,Madrid (2025),Hangar Bicocca, Milano (2025),KUB, Bregenz, (2024) ;S.M.A.K., Ghent (2024) ;Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2023) ;IAC-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (2023) ;Museumof Contemporary Art, Sydney (2023) ;The Contemporary Austin, Texas (2022) ; theFLAG ArtFoundation, New York (2022);Fridericianum, Kassel (2020) ;Fondation Serralves, Porto (2022);MUDAM, Luxembourg (2022);Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Paris (2021);SharjahArt Foundation, UAE (2021);NTU Centre for Contemporary ArtSingapore (2018);Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2025 & 2017); Bergen Assembly (2016). He also presented his performances in renowned institutions likePalazzo Grassi e Punta dellaDogana–Pinault Collection, Venice (2019);Para Site, Hong Kong (2017);Museo d’ArteContemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2017);Tate Modern, London (2016);Fondation LouisVuitton, Paris (2014 and 2015);Serpentine Gallery, London (2012); Performa 11, New York(2011).